It hurts to see Constantine XI and Thomas Valleolo finally go their separate ways.

It is often said that there is no inequality, and this is perfectly reflected in the relationship between Constantine XI and Thomas. After the victory, it was Constantine XI who was praised as Giustiniani, but Thomas, who was the dispatcher, was given the title of the Promiser.

Then, after the death of Demetus, the direct succession of the Roman Empire apparently went to Thomas.

Well, this goes back to the system of the Palaiologos.

The princes governed the overseas territories except Constantinople.

So, the only remaining overseas territories are the islands of Lemnos and Gokche outside the Dardanelles. One of the two islands, Gokche, had been given to Giustini. So only Lemnos was left for Thomas.

How could Thomas, who had separated the Duchy of Morea, accept such a condition?

He demanded that the lands of Upper Thrace, that is, that the Ottoman Turks had returned to Rome, be given to him for governance. The reason is also simple, he needs a piece of overseas territory.

Now all but Constantinople are overseas territories.

This also caused a rift between the two good brothers who were originally close. After a long court struggle, the two sides were finally redivided after a devastating injury.

Upper Thrace was divided into Lescia, a territory further north that was given to Thomas, and Constantine XI was finally ...... Lost the only thoughtful person.

The days in Constantinople, of course, were very boring.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, in Constantine Square, under the Constantine Pillar, the Han people danced lions to vent their joy. The port of Sofia handled more than 100,000 happeron goods in three months, and it had become a fashion in Constantinople. And Wang Chang soon stepped into the upper echelons of Constantinople society.

But for this decaying city, Wang Chang scoffed from the bottom of his heart.

Behold, these are the squares and pillars on which they remember the merits of their ancestors, and they thus rented them to strangers. And this is not bad, further west the Place de Theodosius and the Arc de Triomphe of Theodosius are deserted.

Many Greeks also came to participate in the celebration of the Han Chinese. This is ironic for both the conqueror and the vanquished.

In any case, Wang Chang considered himself a conqueror.

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In January, the Cyrix fleet set sail again. Possessing the strongest ship power in the Black Sea, the Cyrias have become household names throughout the Black Sea. Cylean trading lodges had been established in the two great cities of the Kandal Sultanate (present-day Sinop, Turkey) and the Trabzon Empire (present-day Trabzon, Turkey and its environs). In addition, the two regions of Abkhazia and Imerej in the Kingdom of Georgia were trimmed with barns.

So on the first voyage of the new year, Chen Jia wanted to personally lead the team.

Starting from Chijing, they made a circle in the Sea of Azov, taking the furs of Dingbian, the wool of the green plains, the grain of the connecting port, and the salt and iron cloth of Chizhou, and the fleet hurriedly headed south.

Came to Abkhazia.

The Abkhazians and Georgians are not of the same mind. Of course, Chen Jia has never figured out the national question in the Caucasus. Alans? Ossetians? What is it and what is it?

Georgia alone has a tendency to split four or five times. The Abkhazians are but a thread in the question.

Selling large quantities of salt and iron here in exchange for high-quality grapes, sheepskins and other mountain specialties, the fleet came to Imeleti.

By the sea, the Han Chinese themselves have built a small town. This place was later in Poty, Imeretia Oblast, Georgia. There is a large lake next to it.

The Georgian king did not have time to manage the affairs on this side, he just sent a tax collector, an agent. Then it was left to the free trade and colonization of the Han people.

In fact, Georgia is also a mountainous country, and in order to resist the Black Sheep Dynasty, the White Aries Dynasty and the Ottoman Turks, the mountain people do not care much about the outside world. What's more, Georgians are not evenly minded and fighting among themselves?

After some trade, the fleet arrived in Trabzon.

At the call of the people on the shore, the fleet sailed into the ancient port of Trabzon in turn. It seems that such a port can only exist if it is left over from the classical era.

Trabzon is a sophisticated city. It is a culturally rich and economically developed Black Sea metropolis. After all, this is the end of the Silk Road. Countless Europeans and Asians converge here.

Despite this, the arrival of a large fleet of ships frightened King John IV.

The old king looked out from his palace high in the mountains, and he was terrified by the fleet of ships that obscured the coastline. So he hurried down the mountain and guarded the lower area below the mountain with the officers and soldiers who had arrived in a hurry.

But he was clearly overthinking.

When he learned that his sister's daughter was still the wife of the king of the Han Kingdom, the old king showed his new strength to the commoners and merchants of the lower districts.

This is the Trabzon and Pontic Greeks.

Drilling in the mountains to expose his ass, curled up and living, not daring to show a little confidence in domination. But behind closed doors, he still proclaimed himself emperor.

When they first became independent, they relied on Georgia, the Mongols came by Ilkhan, the Mongols went by Timur, and Timur went again, relying on the Aries dynasty and the Kandar Sultanate.

A large number of goods were sold here, and after buying silver, alum, black wine, nuts and other goods, the large fleet went to Sinop with no interest.

Nobody cares about what happened in Trabzon.

Sinop went further on to Constantinople.

After completing a half-way trade exchange in Constantinople, then repairing the ships and laying down the population and naval guns, the fleet headed north along cities such as Varna, and finally completed the final deal in Anxi County and River Zhongwei.

The Black Sea trade circle has gone through more than half of it. Except for the Ottoman cities, which were not allowed to enter the Han Chinese, the rest of the place welcomed the Han Chinese.

In a month and a half, a ******-man ship brought news that Rian Lee and Francisco I of the Duchy of Athens were on the bar.

A new round of population counts shows that there are 410,000 Greeks in the Peloponnese. And now, with 410,000 Greeks and the Duchy of Athens, Li Anshi is fighting near the walls of Cornis in Conigs.

Li Anshi did not have a ship, and the ships of the Duchy of Athens had long been destroyed. As a result, the two areas with extremely long coastlines did not actually have a large-scale beach-grabbing landing, but confronted each other on the Konish Isthmus.

"**** Athenians!" The Peloponnesian subordinate of Li Anshi shouted like this!

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